Category: fiction

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  Titles in Production

  I have read so many manuscripts in the last six weeks. We released M.Christian’s In Control, a collection of erotic short stories. After I finish this newsletter, I will be doing a final pass on Christian’s and Ralph Greco Jr.’s manuscript, Sex: Everything You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know. This nonfiction collection of essays will release…

  9 Jan 2025
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  My five-star reads of 2024

  This list does not include any books by Parisian Phoenix authors or books that I have worked on as editor. These are the books I read this year that I thought deserved top marks– which is only 12 out of the 76 books I finished in 2024.

  30 Dec 2024
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  Get your Christmas reading ready

  M.Christian’s short story collection In Control released in print, ebook and on Kindle Unlimited. Larry Sceurman, over at Larry’s Stories, provides some holiday reflection on his Substack. He’s written some extra editions to celebrate the Christmas season, including one this weekend that will discuss gift-giving. Click here for Larry’s Stories. Speaking of other Substacks, I had…

  19 Dec 2024
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  Wine and a ghost story…

  Bill Prystauk and I will be headed to Cellar Beast Winehouse in Andrees on November 15 for what might be the most unusual book event ever… We will be joining J.Z. Nieves and Liz Rosen reading our various horror-adjacent works. And the sommelier at Cellar Beast will be pairing wines…

  29 Oct 2024
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  Splintered River as the election approaches

  I can’t help but feel that nothing we create in our fictional universes will compare to what is happening in the real world. And that is why I agreed to publish E.H. Jacobs’ debut novel, Splintered River. In some ways, the premise of the novel seems unbelievable, and you wonder if these ambitious political…

  3 Oct 2024
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  Meet a Storyteller: Larry Sceurman

  On Sunday, September 22, our resident oral storyteller Larry Sceurman will be signing books at the Barnes & Noble Bethlehem in the Southmont Shopping Center from 1 to 4 p.m. He will have copies of both of his nostalgic fiction books, novella The Death of Big Butch and short story collection Coffee in the Morning.  In October, Larry will…

  21 Sep 2024
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  Lessons from a sex conference: Confidence and empowerment

  As the days pass here in Atlanta, I am genuinely sad that I cannot stay for the entire Sex Down South: Atlanta conference. I have to leave early tomorrow to make my long drive home in order to make commitments on Monday. Sigh. Sex Down South (in general) I will…

  6 Sep 2024
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  New Reads in September

  September features TWO new titles from Parisian Phoenix: September 11: Launch of E.H. Jacobs’ debut novel Splintered River, a political drama that imagines what might happen if race relations issues and personal ambitions of people in power go too far… September 25: Sprinkles Did It! a special horizontal, illustration-led story from our Echo City Capers illustrator Joseph Swarctz about…

  29 Aug 2024
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  Fashion & Fiends and other updates at Barnes & Noble

  Tomorrow, I will be signing my books at the Bethlehem Township Barnes and Noble store in the Southmont Shopping Center from 1 to 4 p.m. It was a last-minute booking and since that store has been so supportive and features a Parisian Phoenix Publishing table on the sales floor near…

  24 Aug 2024
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  My Journey to Splintered River

  By E.H. Jacobs I imagine that I’m like many writers and many daydreamers — always thinking, “what if?” When Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, and when subsequent similar tragedies occurred throughout the country, I experienced myself and much of the nation reacting with horror and sorrow.…

  21 Aug 2024